Beautiful Architecture!!!

[Mercedes Benzene]

I love architecture. In fact, if I was not so science oriented, I would probably seek a career in designing buildings.

 

So what are some of the best architectural examples in your opinion???

Please post you examples here (link, thumbnail, etc).

You may also want to talk about your favorite architectual styles/elements.

 

Also, to keep it semi-science related, feel free to discuss the science behind architectural elements in your posts. (ie. flying buttresses, arches, domes, etc.)

[Mercedes Benzene]

I'll start with this:

 

It is a picture of the Nilova Monastery.

It is located north of Moscow in Russia, and was built as an Orthodox Monastery in the early 1600s.

[Racoon]

the Wieliczka Salt Cathedral in Poland. :hihi:

 

Carved 200 meters underground in a salt mine by slaves.

Pretty wicked.

Theres some brutal history behind it, and everything was torch light and methane pockets back then!

 

[Mercedes Benzene]

Dulles International Airport.

Location: Virginia, near Washington, D.C.

 

Dulles is known for the architecture of its main terminal.

It was designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, who is known for his use of magnificant curves in his designs.

 

[Turtle]

Taj Mahal

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[Mercedes Benzene]

30 St Mary Axe, in London England. Beautiful building.

[InfiniteNow]

Ahh... phallic.

[Mercedes Benzene]

For Jay-Qu... my house.

200 m = ???:eek:

 

[Jay-qu]

gee that things pretty big!

 

In general to the thread, I like modern looking buildings. I always wonder, 20 years from now will we think our current modern is old and have some new wacky design? There really cant be that many ways to have a roof over your head so I keep thinking it will just become repeditive, but so far it doesnt seem to be..

[Tormod]

This is great stuff:

 

 

...it was never realised, though.

 

Look here for more insane ideas from the Soviet era:

http://www.muar.ru/ve/2003/moscow/index_e.htm

[TheNaturalStep]

I must say the opera house in Sidney love that building, and that was an engineering master peace imo ..

[Mercedes Benzene]

I was wondering if someone could help me.

While driving through NYC a couple weeks ago, along Central Park South, I happened upon a building that caught my eye. It struck me as beautiful in a way I cannot explain. Something about it made me fall in love immediately.

Since then, I've been seeing it everywhere. It's always in shots in movies and tv shows! (It's haunting me!).

 

The problem is, I've done a lot of sleuthing and cannot figure out what it is. I'm assuming it's an apartment building.... but who knows?

Anyone care to help. Rep to the person who id's it.

 

[InfiniteNow]

I was wondering if someone could help me.

While driving through NYC a couple weeks ago, along Central Park South, I happened upon a building that caught my eye. It struck me as beautiful in a way I cannot explain. Something about it made me fall in love immediately.

Since then, I've been seeing it everywhere. It's always in shots in movies and tv shows! (It's haunting me!).

 

The problem is, I've done a lot of sleuthing and cannot figure out what it is. I'm assuming it's an apartment building.... but who knows?

Anyone care to help. Rep to the person who id's it.

 

 

That, my friend, is the famous Hampshire House. :)

 

NEW YORK CITY - IMAGES a

NEW YORK CITY - IMAGES b

 

 

 

You might enjoy the site that helped me identify it. It's fully of amazing buildings, and has brought many smiles to my face. :eek2:

 

NEW YORK SKYSCRAPERS - CONTENTS

[Mercedes Benzene]

Infinite, you are truly amazing.

Obviously my search skills are a little rusty. :)

 

Thank you! And thanks for that link!:eek2:

 

I can finally rest easy... at least until another awesome building comes my way.

[freeztar]

This is a great thread MB, and one that deserves more attention.

 

I'm quite inclined towards architecture myself and I took almost a full year of it at uni. The class was entitled "Eco-Design" and was a 16 credit course (ie my only class, taught by the same two professors throughout the 2 quarters). It opened my eyes to aspects of design that I had not previously considered, or imagined. It is an art and science.

 

One of Frank Llloyd Wright's most famous works:

Fallingwater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Jay-qu]

Im a fan of the new building that just went up here in Melbourne - its called Eureka Tower.

 

Eureka Tower is the tallest residential building in the world, when measured either by the height of its roof, or by the height of its highest habitable floor. The building stands 297.3m in height (300m above sea level), with 91 storeys above ground plus one basement level.

 

The upper 10 floors windows are actually coated in 24-carot gold, this is to go along with the name taken from the Eureka Stockade, a rebellion during the Victorian gold rush in 1854.

 

[Michaelangelica]

Lovely stuff

I loved Dules airport. It looks like a wave coming in to shore.

 

I think I love quirky curves etc having built a round adobe building.

I love the quirky organic forms of Gaudi

i have never seen his buildings, never will but love looking at pics of them

agrada-familia2.jpg

 

Having said I like organic, flowing shapes I was intrigued by an Islamic Spain 800ad? palace built entirely on geometric (Pythagorean principles. Every step up in size is proportional.). This was on a BBC history show I watched last night.

This give the building a peace, a unity a sense of space that is quite remarkable

A Spanish professor has spent his whole life studying the mathematics of its design. Extraordinary. Anyone remember what it is called?

I would like to see more Islamic architecture

(Arn't they also building some amazing stuff now in Saudi Arabia?)

EG

Sing here for the underpaid workers on the site

Minimum wage and timely payment of salaries for Dubai workers Petition

 

My wife loves Cathedrals (the sweet little atheist that she is). She dragged me to Milan cathedral (On the ABC tour -Another Bloody Cathedral).

A fascinating place. You can walk over the top and there are little gargoyles everywhere- some unflattering ones of building supervisors of the time- and all sorts of quirky stuff. It is dripping with history & stories..

The roof. You can walk all about here. This is where the quirky gargoyles are.

 

Finally a word for the Eiffel Tower.

It is soo B.. BIG! & impressive

You get no idea from the movies.

Quite an innovative building for its day. This phot is taken standing underneath part of the tower